Professor Ann Carlson was cited by Al Jazeera in a discussion of California’s Governor Jerry Brown and his recent meeting with Xi Jinping, the President of China. The two officials met to converse about climate policy after Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord. With Brown serving as a state representative rather than a federal government official, the exchange was something extraordinary. “Governor Brown is essentially signaling to the world that he is going to be the face of progressive climate policy in the United States,” Carlson noted.